Received a report on the proposed introduction of a No Smoking Policy in relation to Council premises. The policy is directed at all those on Council premises, with certain specific exemptions, and includes plans for counselling and smoking cessation sessions to support staff during the early stages of the policy’s introduction.
Agreed, in response to Government proposals to ban smoking in public workplaces on health grounds and to provide a healthier workplace, to the implementation of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Workplace No Smoking Policy, as attached at Appendix A to the report, with effect from 1 January 2006.